Stenhouse wins 200-miler at Las Vegas

Defending Nationwide champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. led the final 54 laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for his first victory of the season. Stenhouse pulled away from Mark Martin, who finished second, on a pair of restarts on the 1.5-mile trioval in the desert. Danica Patrick was 12th.

In Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, George Mcneill had a 5-under 67 and took a one-shot lead over Henrik Stenson and Kevin

Stadler going into the final round of the Puerto Rico Open. Junior Edward Cheserek of St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, who earlier this season ran the second-fastest indoor mile ever by a U.S. high school student, ran the half-mile anchor leg as his school set the meet record of 3:25.88 in the Sprint Medley Relay at the New Balance Indoor Nationals at the Armory. The old mark of 3:27.64 was set in 2009 by New Bern, N.C.

In Istanbul, Brooklyn-born Justin Gatlin earned his first gold medal since serving a four-year doping suspension, winning the 60 meters in 6.46 seconds. In Vancouver, British Columbia, Sebastien Le Toux and

Camilo scored and the Vancouver Whitecaps spoiled the Montreal Impact’s Major League Soccer debut with a 2-0 win.

In Geneva, skicross racer Nik Zoricic died because of head injuries he suffered after crashing into the nets on the side of the course near the final jump of a race in Switzerland.